Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a transdisciplinary artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her performance, installation, and site responsive works examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us. These public projects are platforms for intimate interaction, an extension of feminist and queer praxis. Currently an MFA candidate at School of the Art Institute Chicago, 2026; she received her BA from Oberlin College, 1999; and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2007. Her work has been supported by Carnegie Mellon University’s Frank-Ratchye Further Fund, Cooper Union’s Ida Applebroog Grant, and Office of Public Art’s, Environment, Health and Public Art Initiative. She has exhibited at institutions including Brooklyn Museum, 2024; Counterpublics Triennial, 2023; Oakland Museum of California, 2019; Tensta Konsthall, 2015; Museo Tamayo, 2010; New Museum, 2009.
Her work Perilla Peoples Garden is currently on view at the 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art.